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  • The Politics of Historic Districts

    A Primer for Grassroots Preservation

    by William E. Schmickle ...
    The worst thing in politics is to be right and to lose. This how-to guide will give citizens who are fighting to designate a local historic district the political know-how to win the support of fellow residents and city hall. Everything is here: learning to think politically, mastering the political process; planning and strategy; campaign organizing and leadership; framing a practical vision; ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Preservation Politics

    Keeping Historic Districts Vital

    by William E. Schmickle ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    You’ve established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, advising the established HPC on how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation has faded and the real work of enforcement begins.Bill Schmickle goes beyond “best practices” to ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Historic District Action Guide

    From Designation Campaigns to Keeping Districts Vital

    by William E. Schmickle ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    The Historic District Action Guide: From Designation Campaigns to Keeping Districts Vital is a results-oriented, straight-talking guide for local activists, professionals, and preservation commissions committed to winning and maintaining local historic districts. Its political approach focuses on the crucial challenges of gaining and sustaining community and local governmental support for historic ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    by Franco Scardino ...
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    Do you really know how the U.S. government operates? Most Americans have simply forgotten what they learned in their high school government class. Providing an updated history and comprehensive overview, Idiot's Guides: U.S. Government & Politics, Second Edition, is written to help readers gain an understanding about the origins of the U.S government, in addition to its complex political system ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    by Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the Us Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business

    by Michael J. Daugherty ...
    "The Devil Inside the Beltway". This chilling and personal story that reveals, in detail, how the Federal Trade Commission repeatedly bungled a critically important cybersecurity investigation and betrayed the American public.Michael J. Daugherty, author and CEO of LabMD in Atlanta, uncovers and details an extraordinary government surveillance program that compromised national security and invaded ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Capitalist Imperialism in Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

    New Theories

    by Filip Ilkowski ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Politics, Security and Society
    This book analyzes the controversy surrounding imperialism associated with capitalist development. The last dozen years passed under the shadow of two momentous events: the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted in the framework of the broader «war on terror», and the economic crisis. They occurred against the backdrop of global economic integration, but also against the contradictions in its ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The American President in Film and Television

    Myth, Politics and Representation

    by Gregory Frame ...
    As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explores the complex relationship between the construction of fictional presidents on screen and the political cultures from which they emerged. How have ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Leap into Modernity – Political Economy of Growth on the Periphery, 1943–1980

    by Anna Wolff-Poweska, Adam Leszczyński ...
    Series Book 16 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    This book describes struggles of different countries and their development after World War II. It presents a panorama of different ideologies of accelerated development, which dominated the world just before the war and in the next 40 years. The author explains why in the 1970s global and local elites began to turn away from the state, exchanging statism for the belief in the «invisible hand of ... Read more

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  • White Backlash

    Immigration, Race, and American Politics

    by Marisa A. Abrajano, Zoltan Hajnal ...
    White Backlash provides an authoritative assessment of how immigration is reshaping the politics of the nation. Using an array of data and analysis, Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal show that fears about immigration fundamentally influence white Americans' core political identities, policy preferences, and electoral choices, and that these concerns are at the heart of a large-scale defection of ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Soul of Civil Society

    Voluntary Associations and the Public Value of Moral Habits

    by Don Eberly, Ryan Streeter ...
    Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look beyond such abstractions as the "voluntary sector" and superficial communitarian solutions to civic ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less?

    Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government

    by Christopher Hood, Ruth Dixon ...
    The UK is said to have been one of the most prolific reformers of its public administration. Successive reforms have been accompanied by claims that the changes would make the world a better place by transforming the way government worked. Despite much discussion and debate over government makeovers and reforms, however, there has been remarkably little systematic evaluation of what happened to ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD